1959
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
A fragmented, hallucinatory novel depicting the nightmarish drug addiction experiences of William Lee across America, Tangier, and fantastical landscapes. Published in Paris in 1959, the book was seized by US customs and was the subject of a landmark 1966 Massachusetts Supreme Court obscenity trial — the last major US literary obscenity case — before being declared not obscene.
drugssexualitycensorshipviolencepolitics
Why this book is challenged
- •obscenity
- •explicit drug use
- •sexually explicit content
- •violence
- •deemed pornographic
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